February 2011
22 posts
Song: California
Artist: Rogue Wave
I love this song. And I love this piece. Thank you...
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I'm going on a diet: SocialMediaLite
I admire those who can do it whole hog, cold turkey, whichever meat metaphor you prefer. But to be honest, I don’t think I could cut out social media completely. I’d be lonely. Twitter has become a rather important feature of my involvement in and awareness of the book world. And Tumblr, I rather like you so far. But I am going to do my darndest to cut out most of the fats and sugars...
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I'm totally geeking out here
So.
John Gall, one of my favorite cover designers (yes, I have them. Geek and a half)
did a post about Corpus Libris!
OMG! <fans face with both hands>
Maybe he’ll design the cover for my blog-to-book deal from Chronicle. Ahem, ahem.
Bookselling Without Borders →
jjchristie:
“But if you’d rather not have a bookstore in your community, shop mostly or only at Amazon. No one should shop at Green Apple out of charity or pity or noblesse oblige, but because you want what we’ve got. You mold the retail landscape with every purchase; vote wisely.”
Click through for the full, excellent post from San Francisco’s Green Apple Books.
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Maybe I don't want gay marriage... I just don't...
Just finished reading Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, and while there are definitely parts that I don’t agree with (and parts that felt too bloggy, no offense Me and Everyone Else), there are some pieces in here that just make a whole lot of sense. The best essay in the book is a fascinating and well-reasoned piece by John D’Emilio, and it appeared originally in...
Been diggin’ this song, heard it on Weeds....
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Judgmental Bookseller Ostrich meme
Gotta love making fun of ourselves…
http://qkme.me/D2x
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Pretty much the best day ever.
I woke up with a cat nestled in the crook of my arm, kind of like the one pictured below.
I made some Pu-erh tea and had some good quality Twitter time — mostly with people I’ve met IRL, a few interweb friends, and an entertaining hashtag (#publishingmyths).
Then I took the Gold Line out out to Intelligentsia Pasadena to meet Pat, Dale, and Ruby from Vromans. My first trip out to...
Amazon.com closing Texas facility over $269M tax bill
Evidence abounds that Amazon fully knows that their profit strategy is contingent on tax evasion. I tell you, that playing field just keeps getting steeper and steeper. If you value humans and communities at all, I beg you to find ways to support independent business, even when you shop online. We pay for their cheap prices in other ways, I...
Bookavore: An honest question. →
“At what point do you finally admit that you like to read, and you like to write, and you secretly resent everything that takes time away from those pursuits except for eating, and you’re even a little peevish about eating unless cheese is involved in some way?”
I agree with every part of this sentence.
bookavore:
Or is it a honest question? I can never remember. But that is...
TapeGun. A song made from sounds you’d hear...
Fascinating composing experience using sound bytes...
“Twenty-first-century life is karaoke — a never-ending attempt to maintain...”
– Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
by Douglas Coupland 